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Global Governance
Disaster Management
Disease Sweeping Through Gaza’s Refugee Camps
85 per cent of people in Gaza are now displaced and doctors are reporting hundreds of thousands of cases of Hepatitis A. Concerns are...
Clean tech
Road to COP29: Highest Climate Ambitions Needed to Decarbonize World
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require a 43 percent decline in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, per estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Food Security
Gaza: ‘Simply Not Enough Food’ to go Around, Warn UN Humanitarians
Ongoing hostilities across the Gaza Strip have been “particularly intense” in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as the...
Features
Adrift at Sea for 28 Days, Struggles Continue for Sri Lankan Migrants
Sri Lankan migrants who paid their life savings to people traffickers for perilous and unsuccessful sea crossings in an attempt to find a better...
Accountability
Elections Cast a Shadow of Uncertainty over Sri Lanka’s Economic Recovery
With weak household spending and less than two months of foreign reserve import cover to deal with a volatile global economy, Sri Lanka’s recovery...
Bangladesh
UN Human Rights Chief Urges Bangladesh to Renew Commitment to Democracy
At least 10 opposition supporters reportedly died – or were killed – in custody in the last two months, raising serious concerns about possible...
Forced disappearances
Sri Lanka to Resolve Missing Persons’ Issue by 2025: President Ranil Wickremesinghe
The Office of Missing Persons (OMP), established in 2017, remains central to the government’s purported intention to establish the fate of thousands of victims...
Finance and Economy
Flagship Economic Report Highlights why Global Cooperation is Key
The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2024 projects a slowdown in global growth from an estimated 2.7 per cent in 2023...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project are not uniformly distributed, as certain villages experience benefits while...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review of the air quality scenario in the National Capital Region...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
By Yasmine Sherif
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
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